I am getting used with email scams, and they tend to become increasingly sophisticated, but a few days ago I got a new one which almost got me.

I received an email from a friend I have not talked to in 2 years. I still send him Christmas emails but do not get responses. We started a dialogue, he asked me if I had an Amazon account. He did not sound like my friend but he had the right display name, and what was more intriguing he was writing me from the correct address. He then asked me to send an Amazon gift ecard to a friend. I asked him to call me.

The final email and the most obvious giveaway came with the email of his so called friend, lucyhoney123. This was funny. Something like granny95 would have been more convincing.

This guy was not trying to scam me of some money but send a gift to his sweetheart SW with other’s people money. The moral of this fable? If you try to impress a SW use your own money. Otherwise she won’t think that you are smart but that you are unreliable.